26-year-old Joseph Jefferson was a gay youth activist and an inspiring human being. Now he’s dead.

There’s a lot of new hot queer horror headed your way this August. Plus, more LGBTQ+ lit across all genres!

Introducing: The Autostraddle Insider, a full-color, gorgeous, gay, sexy, smart, funny zine. Here’s how to get it!

“As quickly as the tomboy femme has risen to the heights of wlw stardom, however, she’s also grabbed the attention of an unexpected internet subculture: Christian influencers.”

It’s summertime, and we’re hot hot hot.

Photographer Maro Hagopian documents the NYC queer scene; is an icon; throws a party; fosters a community.

‘So Gay For You’ is a loving portrait of chosen community, a roaming time capsule of queer pop culture, a platonic love story, a behind-the-scenes look at a groundbreaking show and an introspective, juicy celebrity memoir.

We all know that this sports issue has nothing to do with sports, and it has nothing to do with protecting female athletes. This topic has been a roundabout way to erode rights for transgender people.

In a devastating week for trans rights, there were also some legislative and advocacy wins. Read all about it in the latest Trans News Tracker.

It feels like a small miracle that a show like Andor got to exist. An expensive as hell, explicitly anti-fascist, openly queer, and intelligently plotted spy thriller set in one of the biggest media franchises in history feels like it shouldn’t exist, but it did, and it was wonderful.

In their new book Queer Devotion, Charlie Claire Burgess joins a robust tradition of queer and trans people reclaiming religious symbolism for ourselves.

In-depth looks (with handy TL;DRs) for every team of the WNBA’s Western Conference going into the 2025 season: Dallas Wings, Golden State Valkyries, Los Angeles Sparks, Las Vegas Aces, Minnesota Lynx and the Seattle Storm.

Many have wondered why straight influencer Tinx wrote lesbian romance novel, Hotter in the Hamptons. But did she even write it?

April is a stacked month for LGBTQ+ books, so get in here and find out what to add to your TBR stack!

“I always thought, if I weren’t a trans man, I’d be a butch lesbian.”

Small grassroots LGBTQ+ museums, archives, and galleries are redefining what it means to preserve and display trans histories.

The Yellowjackets believe the only way to survive is to kill their humanity.

March is upon us, and with it comes…a somewhat paltry offering of new LGBTQ streaming content, but here we are! The few things we are getting are fun at least, like a second season of Survival of the Thickest as well as a four-part docuseries about the National Women’s Soccer League and a Lena Waithe guest arc on Grey’s Anatomy.

Even after we come to terms with our impairments, we’re still dogged by self-doubt. 

From Our Flag Means Death to A League of Their Own to It’s a Sin, here are 15 LGBTQ+ shows set in the past with vibrant, interesting queer characters.